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Bergen Art Museum
Beside the Lille Lungegårdsvann lake, Bergen Art Museum exhibits a superb collection of 18th- and 19th-century pieces by international and Norwegian artists, including Munch, Miró, Picasso, Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
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Bryggens Museum
The archaeological Bryggens Museum was built on the site of Bergen's first settlement, and the 800-year-old foundations unearthed during construction have been incorporated into the exhibits, which include medieval tools, pottery, skulls and runes. The permanent exhibition documenting Bergen in around 1300 is particularly interesting.
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Cultural History Collection
The two main University Museums include: the Cultural History Collection with Viking weaponry, medieval altars, folk art, period furnishings, Inuit and Aleut cultures and displays covering everything from Henrik Ibsen to Egyptian mummies; and the Natural History Collection.
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Hanseatic Museum
The terrific Hanseatic Museum provides a window onto the world of Hanseatic traders. Housed in a rough-timber building from 1704, it starkly reveals the contrast between the austere living and working conditions of Hanseatic merchant sailors and apprentices, and the lifestyles of the management.
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Maritime Museum
Bergen's Maritime Museum is essential to understanding the history of this seafaring city. It features models of ships from Viking times to the present and exhibits tracing Norway's maritime history.
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Natural History Collection
The two main University Museums include: the Cultural History Collection with Viking weaponry, medieval altars, folk art, period furnishings, Inuit and Aleut cultures and displays covering everything from Henrik Ibsen to Egyptian mummies; and the Natural History Collection .
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Old Bergen Museum
The open-air Old Bergen Museum, 4km north of the city centre, boasts a fine collection of 35 structures from the 18th and 19th centuries. A 30-minute walk from Torget will get you there or take a bus (No 20-23). Admission to the grounds is free and they are open all year.
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Schøtstuene
An essential complement to the Hanseatic Museum, Schøtstuene is a reconstruction of one of the original assembly halls where the fraternity of Hanseatic merchants once met for their business meetings and beer guzzling.
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Theta Museum
This excellent one-room reconstruction of a clandestine Resistance headquarters, uncovered by the Nazis in 1942, is now Norway's tiniest museum. Appropriately enough, finding it is still a challenge. It's behind the Enhjørningen restaurant; pass through the alley and up the stairs to the 3rd floor.
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University Museums
The two main University Museums include: the Cultural History Collection with Viking weaponry, medieval altars, folk art, period furnishings, Inuit and Aleut cultures and displays covering everything from Henrik Ibsen to Egyptian mummies; and the Natural History Collection.
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